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In Pursuit of a Trace (İz Peşinde)

In Pursuit of a Trace (İz Peşinde)

TV Series · 1990–1995 · 13 people

Turkish action and crime series İz Peşinde ("In Pursuit of a Trace") started on TRT 1 in the early 1990s and ended on Star TV in 1995. Set in Istanbul, it tells of detectives and police up against smuggling and the underworld, with thrills and suspense. Its first episode aired on January 22, 1990, and over three seasons the production reached 29 episodes. Mehmet Aslantuğ, Erol Taş, Gülen Karaman and Osman Yağmurdereli take the leading roles.

Mehmet Aslantuğ plays Tuncer, Erol Taş plays Chief Inspector Ahmet, Gülen Karaman plays Naşide and Osman Yağmurdereli plays Esat. The large cast also includes Ece Uslu (Neriman), Pelin Körmükçü (Nil), Münir Akça (Haluk), Doğan Aybay (Davut) and Ahmet Fırat (Inspector Tarık), along with Salih Kalyon, Bahtiyar Engin and Kenan Bal.

The first season of ten episodes ended on March 26, 1990 with "İntikam". The series came back on May 12, 1991 for a second season and closed its TRT 1 run on August 25, 1991 with episode 23, "Kusursuz Plan". Four years later, on July 7, 1995, it returned on Star TV as Kanundan Kaçılmaz, a six-episode third season whose last episode aired on August 18, 1995. Hüseyin Karakaş directed and Avni Özgürel wrote the scripts; the music is by Ali Kocatepe.

DirectorHüseyin Karakaş
Production companyTRT
NetworkTürkiye Radyo Televizyon Kurumu
In Pursuit of a Trace (İz Peşinde) In Pursuit of a Trace (İz Peşinde)

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Bahtiyar Engin Bahtiyar Engin Actor · 61 years old Ece Uslu Ece Uslu Actor · 52 years old Neriman Kenan Bal Kenan Bal Actor · 75 years old Mehmet Aslantuğ Mehmet Aslantuğ Actor · 65 years old Tuncer Pelin Körmükçü Pelin Körmükçü Actor · 56 years old Nil Salih Kalyon Salih Kalyon Actor · 80 years old Serhat Özcan Serhat Özcan Actor · 65 years old Electrical technician Hikmet Karagöz Actor · died at 73 İbrahim Tatlıses İbrahim Tatlıses Singer · born 1952 Self Erol Taş Erol Taş Actor · died at 72 Chief Inspector Ahmet Kerem Yılmazer Kerem Yılmazer Actor · died at 58 Münir Akça Münir Akça Actor · 1951 – 2016 Haluk Yılmaz Meydaneri Yılmaz Meydaneri Actor · 67 years old

Also in the cast: Gülen Karaman, Osman Yağmurdereli, Doğan Aybay, Ahmet Fırat

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Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

İz Peşinde's own journey is almost as interesting as its story: two seasons on TRT 1, a four-year gap, then a six-episode comeback on Star TV under the title Kanundan Kaçılmaz. With 29 episodes in all, it is a short but lively series. The balance between Mehmet Aslantuğ's Tuncer and Erol Taş's Chief Inspector Ahmet feels like its backbone. The real problem is continuity: the long gap and the change of title make the characters harder to follow, and the third season stands somewhat apart as its own production. Still, finding a crime series like this on the television of that era is a treat.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Detectives, police, smugglers and Istanbul's underworld: the right ingredients for a genre fan. Seeing Erol Taş as a chief inspector is enough to make you curious. If you are used to today's fast editing, the pace can feel slow in places, and the television budgets of the time limit the set pieces. But it knows how to build tension, and episode titles like Kusursuz Plan (The Perfect Plan) tell you up front what you are in for.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

İz Peşinde is a crime series that portrays early-1990s Istanbul through smuggling and the underworld. That it began on TRT 1 and carried on a few years later on Star TV under a new title can be read as a small clue to how quickly television was changing in those years. Avni Özgürel's script sets the struggle between police and the criminal world against the backdrop of a growing metropolis. Watched today, it offers interesting glimpses of the city of the time and of what audiences expected from a crime story.

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